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Exodus 18:13
“It happened on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.”
Verse in context — Exodus 18
Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them.
Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all of the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.
It happened on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.
When Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, "What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?
Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God.
About Exodus
God delivers Israel from Egypt, gives the Ten Commandments, and establishes His covenant with His people.
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